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Renee — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:11:15 +0000

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Agile vs Scrum

Renee — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 03:46:51 +0000

Write a blog on Agile vs Scrum. It is a brief summary. Check it HERE

Jenkins Contributor Summit Online Feb 23-25

Renee — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:15:21 +0000

The Jenkins Contributor Summit brings together current and future contributors to the Jenkins project. We’re hosting an online summit this year to encourage contributors from around the world to meet, discuss, and plan for the future.

The Contributor Summit will be Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 through Thursday, February 25, 2021. The summit brings together community members to learn, meet, and help shape the future of Jenkins. In the Jenkins community we value all types and sizes of contributions and love to welcome new participants.
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Format
The online format allows greater flexibility for meeting times and topics. Contributors will meet to discuss specific topics in smaller groups at times that are convenient for those in the meeting.

*Security - Daniel Beck
*Infrastructure - Olivier Vernin
*Release - Tim Jacomb
*User experience - Félix Queiruga
*Chinese localization - 赵晓杰(Rick)
*Configuration as code - Tim Jacomb
*Google Summer of Code - Kara de la Marck
*Documentation - Mark Waite
*Events and Advocacy - Alyssa Tong
*Cloud Native - Kara de la Marck
*Platforms - Mark Waite

Opening session
The opening session will start Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 15:00 UTC. After an initial welcome and overview, we’ll hear from leaders in the Jenkins project as they share the results from the previous 12 months and outline ideas for the next 12 months.

After those presentations, we’ll create "breakout rooms" in the online meeting that will allow those interested in specific tracks to meet, identify preferred times for their tracks, and prepare draft agendas for their tracks.
Tracks
Smaller sessions ("tracks") will be run in the 48 hour period between the opening session and the closing session. These smaller sessions will be focused on specific topics. A track leader will organize the track meeting, facilitate discussions in the track meeting, and present a summary of the track results in the closing session.
Closing session
The opening session will start Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 15:00 UTC. After an initial welcome and overview, we’ll hear from track leaders as they share the results from their track meetings.

We’ll identify items that should be added to the Jenkins roadmap, items that should be further investigated by special interest groups, and items that need further discussion elsewhere.

Reference

https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2021/02/16/contributor-summit-online/
Videos of the summit

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5JBtmoz7ePk-33ZHimGiDQ

5 Reasons to Move from Jira to ZenTao

Renee — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 07:53:05 +0000

Before we dig down on to consider migration from Jira to ZenTao, let’s start with the basics, for business positions, who might be new to this. We’ll briefly introduce you to Jira, it’s the most popular alternative — ZenTao, and then touch base on the most common reasons, why businesses decided to move from Jira to ZenTao.

What is Jira?

Jira is an issue tracking tool developed by Atlassiann. It is the "#1 software development tool used by agile teams". Jira Software is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software. Originally, Jira was designed as a bug and issue tracker. But today, Jira has evolved into a powerful work management tool for all kinds of use cases, from requirements and test management to agile software development.

When you should start looking for Jira alternative?

Your monthly bill is continually increasing.
You don’t use most of the features.
Your team has too many problems with receiving support.
Your account performance is decreasing.
You need to pay extras for each plug-in integration.

What is ZenTao ALM?

ZenTao is an open source project management software for product management, project management, test management, document management, bug tracking, CI management and todo management. It is a professional Application Lifecycle Management(ALM), covering the core process of software development. It is based on Scrum, a popular Agile framework that is very pragmatic and easy to implement. It fits the fast iterative development of software projects. ZenTao self-hosted and Cloud are both available.

What are the reasons to migrate from Jira to ZenTao?

Unlike Jira, you could directly use built-in features in ZenTao without paying extras for plug-ins, such as Document Management, Gantt Charts, Effort Management and SVN/GIT repositories. ZenTao has more to offer than that, so read on the following reasons that you should migrate from Jira to ZenTao.

1. Affordable and reasonable pricing with best I/O

Jira pricing is nice for small teams, but the subscription starting from $70 per user monthly. It could be a big chunk of cost to your team. If you look at the pricing and features of ZenTao, you will find it worth what it offers. For all ZenTao Biz features, it is only $32.9 per user annually. You can find more plans for ZenTao self-hosted HERE and Cloud HERE.

2. Must-have features for application lifecycle management

ZenTao is a solution for the application lifecycle. It starts from the user story management(PBI management) and planning of a product development, to the testing, releasing and feedback of the project. It is especially for agile teams aiming for fast delivery and feedback.

3. Fast support via Zoom meeting, 1-ON-1 remote support, and emails

ZenTao support team serves users from all over the world. For new users, they have bi-weekly online introduction Zoom meeting. You can find information on the latest one scheduled on Feb 2, 2021 HERE. You can also schedule a demo with the team HERE. The average response time of the team is 24 business hours if you send an email asking for support.

4. Rapid loading and stable performance

Unlike Jira which is complained as loading too low, ZenTao can be self-hosted, so it is more in the users' hand. Also, the average page loading time of ZenTao is within 0.5 seconds. But it’s not the interface that slows down your Jira account, but instead all SaaS applications. That’s why Jira users are looking for on-premise alternatives, especially when Jira announced their server and data center products are stopped on Februrary 2, 2021.

5. No locked in by features

If you ever used Jira, you would know that almost every feature a development team needs can be integrated in Jira, such as Confluence, Slack, BitBucket, etc. The other side of the coin is that you have to buy the apps separately and then integrate it one by one. ZenTao has document management, instant messager, CI features and such all built-in. You just pay it once and for all. You can check the features of ZenTao Biz HERE.

For feature comparison charts and details, read Agile Tool-ZenTao ALM vs. Jira Software.

Reference

Install Collabora Online with Docker on Ubuntu in ZenTao

Renee — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 02:36:51 +0000

Step 1: Install Docker on Ubuntu

For simplicity, this tutorial installs Docker from the default Ubuntu software repository.

sudo apt update sudo apt install docker.io

Once installed, the Docker daemon should be automatically started. You can check its status with:

systemctl status docker

Hint: If the above command doesn’t quit immediately, you can press the Q key to make it quit.

If it’s not running, then start the daemon with this command:

sudo systemctl start docker

And enable autostart at boot time:

sudo systemctl enable docker

Step 2: Install and Run Collabora Online Server with Docker

Execute the following command to pull the latest Collabora Online Development Edition image from Docker hub.

sudo docker pull collabora/code

Then start a new container, for example:

sudo docker run -t -d -p 0.0.0.0:9980:9980 -e "domain=example\\.com" -e "username=admin" -e "password=123456" --restart always --cap-add MKNOD collabora/code

Replace example\.com with your server/ZenTao hostname, preseving the double slashes. This is because Collabora only allows known hosts to access its service and we need to add the server/ZenTao hostname to the whitelist with the domain= parameter.

-d: Detached mode makes the container run in the background.
-t: Allocate a pseudo-TTY
-p: Publish a container’s port to the host.
-e: Set environment variables

The Collabora Online server will be listening on port 9980 of localhost (127.0.0.1) as can be shown by issuing the following command. (If your Ubuntu system doesn’t have the netstat command, you can install it with sudo apt install net-tools.)

sudo netstat -lnpt | grep docker

Since I am using

sudo docker run -t -d -p 0.0.0.0:9985:9980 -e 'domain=192\\.168\\.2\\.111' -e "username=admin" -e "password=123456" --restart always --cap-add MKNOD collabora/code

So I get this result

Go to browser and visit https://your domian:9985 (Since SSL is enabled by default, so you have to visit by HTTPS if you haven't edited configuration file of Collabora Online ), you will get a "OK" page.

Since my ZenTao is not running with SSL, so I need to configure loolwsd.xml to disable SSL. ( If ZenTao is running with SSL, then Collabora has to run with SSL as well, it's the same if ZenTao disables SSL. Otherwise Collabora Online will not be enabled successfully in ZenTao )

Step 3: Use the configuration file directly to set Collabora Online

After starting the container, you can copy the configuration file out of the container, edit it, and copy it back to the container. The container will notice that the configuration file has changed, and the service will be restarted (don’t forget the –restart always option when you start the container with docker run).

Find out the name or hash of your container: $sudo docker ps

The output would be something like this:
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES e4212ca0e6d6 collabora/code "/bin/sh -c 'bash st…" 25 minutes ago Up 25 minutes 0.0.0.0:9985->9980/tcp admiring_sinoussi

Copy out the config file: $sudo docker cp admiring_sinoussi:/etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml loolwsd.xml

For disable SSL, make sure you have editted value for SSL settings as "false"

<ssl desc="SSL settings"> <as_scheme type="bool" default="true" desc="When set we exclusively use the WOPI URI's scheme to enable SSL for storage">false</as_scheme> <enable type="bool" desc="If as_scheme is false or not set, this can be set to force SSL encryption between storage and loolwsd. When empty this defaults to following the ssl.enable setting"></enable>

<ssl desc="SSL settings"> <enable type="bool" desc="Controls whether SSL encryption between browser and loolwsd is enabled (do not disable for production deployment). If default is false, must first be compiled with SSL support to enable." default="true">false</enable>

Edit the config file with your favourite editor, then save and copy it back to the container:

$sudo docker cp loolwsd.xml admiring_sinoussi:/etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml

Wait a few seconds for the automatic restart.

You might meet the problem that the container could not restart successfully and logs is as the following,
![example3]（https://cdn.zsite.net/us1/upload/202012/f_efa96f2c559356814f8b2f2062a79a2a.png）

Getting CA Private Key Can't open /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml: Permission denied. Can't open /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml: Permission denied. Can't open /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml: Permission denied. Can't open /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml: Permission denied. Can't open /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml: Permission denied. /etc/loolwsd/proof_key exists already. Setting up watches. Couldn't watch /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml: Permission denied -rw-r----- 1 root root 18191 Dec 7 01:42 /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml modified --> restarting Try with the following commands to fix the problem by chown beacause of "Permission denied" sudo docker stop admiring_sinoussi sudo docker start admiring_sinoussi sudo docker exec -it -u root admiring_sinoussichown lool:lool /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml

And then visit http://192.168.2.111:9985, you will get a "OK" page if you succeed.

Step 4: Set up in ZenTao
Go to Admin - Integration - Office to enable LibreOffice and Check "Collabora Online", for Collabora Path, just fill in with exact address and port number for your Collabora Online.

Go to Doc in ZenTao and create a Word file to see if it's working.
![ZenTao integration]（https://cdn.zsite.net/us1/upload/202012/f_ea771bb31f25b8c9e89725b8e2e35694.jpg）

Open "test sprint doc"

If you check Track Changes with "Record", you could roll back editing by you or your teammates in Track Changes - Manage

Read the original post HERE